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Is a qualitative term that refers to the general condition of a forest. |
Forest Healthi |
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a scientific branch of forestry concerned with the study and control of biotic and abiotic stress agents that affect the health and/or integrity of trees, forest communities, and wood products. |
Forest Protection |
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Biotic stress agents have been the focus of two major branches of forest protection: |
forest entomology and forest pathology. |
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- study of forest insects, particularly those insects which feed on or do damage to trees or lumber. |
Forest Entomology |
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people who specialize in insects. Most entomologists work in the field of economic entomology, also called applied entomology. |
Entomologists |
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the study of insect pests that damage crops, ornamental plants, stored products, and buildings, or that endanger the health of human beings and animals. |
Economic entomology or applied entomology - |
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study insect pests of food and fiber. |
Agricultural entomologists - |
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seek to decrease the threat of insects that cause injury or disease to people and animals. |
Medical entomologists and veterinary entomologists |
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is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton, segmented body, and joint appendages. |
Arthropod |
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This is the largest and most successful of the animal phyla, with over 1 000 000 species identified to date and an estimated 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 |
Arthropods |
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classification of insect as an animal is based on their structural characters. Those that have certain common structure are classified into one group and those with other structures into other groups. Their classification of groups are divided in the animal kingdom. |
Classification Taxonomy – |
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a small, six-legged animal, three body sections, antennae and a hard exoskeleton, like a skeleton on the outside of their body – they are invertebrates. |
Insect |
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- system of naming organisms. |
Nomenclature |
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precise |
Scientific name – |
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Vernaculars which may vary geographicallyñ |
Common name - |
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– includes the genus and specific epithet usually italicized or underlined. |
It is binomial |
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They live almost everywhere on earth--from steamy tropical jungles to cold Polar Regions. |
Insect |
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They live high on snow-capped mountains, and in deserts below sea level. They can be found in caves deep in the earth, or flying high in the sky. Only in the oceans are few insects found. They smell chiefly with their antennae, and some taste with their feet. Many insects hear by means of hairs on their bodies. Others have "ears" on their legs or on the sides of their bodie |
INSECT |
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involves activities like mating, nest building, egg laying (oviposition) and capturing prey. |
Complex behavior – |
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Insect Behavior and their ways |
Complex behavior – Insects are dominant groups of animals on earth |
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Yet , they are valuable in many ways: |
a. Pollination b. Provides honey, beeswax, silk and other products c. Serve as food d. Serve as scavengere. Help keep harmful animals and plants in check f. Source of medicineg. For scientific research |
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– production of light by some insect species of the order coleoptera. (Firely under family Lampyridae).The light producing organ is located under the body wall on the ventral side of terminal abdominal segments. |
Bioluminescence |
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It consists of layers of light producing cells called _____. |
PHOTOCYTES |
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The light is produced by the oxiation of a substance called ____ and catalyzed by the enzyme luciferinase with the presence of ATP. |
LUCIERIN |
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The body of the insect is divided into ____ well-defined body regions through the aggregation of some segments to perform some specific functions. |
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Insect Body |
a pair of antennae mouthpart 3 pair of thoracic legs wings ~usually 0-2 pairs |
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- The body wall of insect |
Integument |
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The tarsomeres may vary from 2-5 and the basal tarsomere is sometime enlarged and called ---. |
basitarsus |
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– are paired segmented appendages located on the head usually between or below the compound eyes. |
Antennae |
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3 basic parts of Antennae |
Scape Pedicel Flagellum or clavola – |
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Functions of Antennae |
Detect chemicals including food and pheromone Perceive smell, humidity changes, temperature, variation, vibration, and wind velocity. Perceive the forward environment detect danger. Hearing Communication |
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– sense organ |
Pedicel |
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remaining annuli or flagellomeres; lack of individual muscles. |
Flagellum or clavola |
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Types of Antennae |
Setaceous Filliform Monilliform Serrate Unipectinate Bipectinate Clavate Capitate Lamellate Aristate Stylate Geniculate Flabellate Plumose Pilose |
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COMMON TYPES of Insect Mouth |
Chewing Piercing Sucking Siphoning Sponging |
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Mouth PartsConsist of |
labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium and hypopharyx. The mouthparts of insects are modified in several ways. |
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is the middle section of an insect's body. |
Thorax |
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Three Dorsal sclerites: |
Dorsal plate : Tergum/notum (tergite/nota) Lateral plate : Pleuron (pleura)Ventral : Sternum (sterna) |
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Second and middle tagma |
THORAX |
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Center of locomotion, jumping, swimming, flying |
Thorax |
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Each segment has a pair of walking legs and usually one or two pair of wings in the meso and metathorax which is called pterothorax. |
THORAX |
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Two pair of spiracles found In meso and meta on lateral side |
THORAX |
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Each segment has a pair of walking legs and usually one or two pair of wings in the meso and metathorax which is called . |
pterothorax |
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The ___ of insects typically consist of the following segments: the basal coxa, followed by a small trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus and pre-tarsus bearing the claws. |
Legs |
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– small segment horizontal hinge to the coxa but fixed to the base of the third segment. |
Trochanter |
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– the longest and stoutest part of the leg. |
Femur |
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– slender segment. |
Tibia |
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– in adult insect is usually subdivided into sub segments or tarsomeres. |
Tarsus |
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- terminal segment of the leg bearing, usually pair of movable lateral claws and a median lobe, the arolium. In diptera, in addition to the large pulvilli, one beneath each claws, is a median process called empodium which is spine like or lobe like just as the pulvilli. |
Pretarsus |
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The legs of the insect vary in shape and size acc to their habit and habitats. Some of the more striking modifications are follows |
Methathoric leg of the grasshopper for jumping. Prothoracic leg of the mole cricket for digging. Methathoracic leg of some aquatic bugs for swimming. Leg of the cockroach for running and walking. Prothoracic legs of the praying mantis for grasping. Prothoracic leg of the head louse for clinging to hairs |
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The ___of insects are outgrowth if the body wall, which vary in size, shape, texture, venation, and in the position at which they are held at rest. |
Wings |
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Its structure of wings has 3 features:- |
articulation of the body - veins - differentiation of wings surface into regions. |
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The ____ of other insects could be membranous as in bees, leathery (tegmina) as in grasshoppers, hard or elytron as in beetles, or partly hard basally and leather or membranous apically (hemilytron) as in bugs. |
Wings |
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TYPE OF INSECT WINGS |
Membranous Tegmen Haltere Fringe Scaly Elytron Hamuli |
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ABDOMEN IS COMPOSED OF |
Reproductive organs- ovipositor(female),aedeagus/penis (male)Respiratory openings-spiracleSensory structures -Cercus(i) Reproductive organs- ovipositor(female),aedeagus/penis (male)Respiratory openings-spiracleSensory structures -Cercus(i) |
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Respiratory openings |
spiracle |
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Sensory structures - |
Cercus |
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, external opening of the respiratory organ, are located on both sides of the abdominal segments (usually 8 pairs). |
Spiracles |
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The ____ region of the insect is the abdomen with a number of segments varying from 9-11, but the 11th is usually much reduced or absent. |
posterior |
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Consist of a dorsal tergum and ventral sternum. |
Abdomen |
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The reproductive opening and ____ are found in the 9th segment in males and on the 8th and 9th segments in females. |
genitalia |
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Abdomen of adult females possesses no appendages except on the 11th where a pair of long and multi-segmented appendage like structure, the ____, is retained. It is much reduced in some insects. |
cerci |
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Many insects have a pair of feelers, called ____, on the last segment of the abdomen. |
cerci |
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Mayflies, stone flies, and some roaches have especially long ___. |
cerci |
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The ___ of earwigs and some other insects form a pair of tongs, which are used for self-defense or for capturing prey |
Cerci |
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Development and Metamorphosis |
Egg Larva Pupa Lady Bug |
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Most insects develop from an egg. |
Oviparous Viviparous |
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– when an insect lay eggs and youngs or larvae hatched from it. |
Oviparous |
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– insect whose eggs are retained in their body until they hatch and give birth to living young. |
Viviparous |
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- is a change in form of insects during post-embryonic development resulting to the growth of insect. |
Metamorphosis |
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- the exoskeleton is periodically shed and replaced with a larger one. |
Molting/Ecdysis |
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– the shed cuticula or the cast skin. |
Exuviae |
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– the stage of an insect between successive molts. |
Instar |
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– refers to the period of time elapsing between molts. |
Stadium |
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Some insects are called ___ because the eggs develop even without fertilization. |
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Type of Metamorphosis |
Ametabola Paurometabola Hemimetabola |
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- type of growth or life cycle in insects in which there is slight or no metamorphosis. This insect lack wings even as adults. (Example: silver fish) |
Ametabola |
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- the immature (nymph) resembles the adult in many respect and both have the same habitat. However, the gonads and wings are underdeveloped. The wings appear only as external pads on the thorax. |
Paurometabola |
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At ____ there is the successive nymphs or instar development resulting to growth or increase size. |
nymphal stage |
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- in this type of development the immature (naiad) appear to be very much different from the adult. It has gills in order to adapt to an aquatic habitat. Its wings and gonads are undeveloped. |
Hemimetabola |
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Egg-naiad-adult |
Hemimetabola |
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Type of Larvae |
Eruciform Scarabeiform Vermiform Campodeiform Elateiform |
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– are caterpillar-like larvae. Their body is cylindrical, head is well developed but with very short antennae and with both thoracic legs and abdominal prolegs. |
Eruciform
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- a maggot-like. Body is elongate and worm-like, legless and with or without a well developed head |
Vermiform |
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- or grub-like. Usually curved, head is well developed with thoracic legs but without abdominal prolegs, relatively inactive and sluggish. |
Scarabeiform |
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– is resembling diplurans in the genus campodea. Body is elongate and somewhat flattened, the cerci and antennae are usually well developed. The thoracic legs are well developed and the larva usually active. |
Campodeiform |
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– or worm like. Body is elongate, cylindrical and hardshelled, the legs and body bristles are reduced. |
Elateriform |
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TYPE OF PUPA |
Obtect Exarate Coartate |
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appendages are glued more or less to the body. Occurs in order lepidoptera. |
Obtect |
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Characteristics of Exarate |
Free appendages Visible adult structure Mummified appearance Lack of cocoon Physiological activity |
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CHARACTERISTICS OF OBTECT |
Appendages glued to the body Immobility Protective casing Internal development Physiological activity |
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– it is like exarate pupa but remain covered by the hardened exuvia of the next larval instar which is called puparium. |
Coartate |
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- appendages are free and not glued to the body. The pupa look like place mummified adult not usually covered with cocoon. |
Exarate |
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CHARACTERISTICS OF Coartate |
Enclosed by puparium Retain larval features Hardened exoskeleton Limited mobility Internal development |
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COMMON INSECT ORDERS |
Odonata Dermaptera Mantodea Hymenoptera Coleoptera Lepidoptera Diptera Hemiptera Orthoptera Blattodea Isoptera Thysanoptera
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Greek “odon” = tooth (referring to teeth on their mandibles) |
Odonata |
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(earwigs) Greek“derma” = skin, “ptero” = wing |
Dermaptera |
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earwigs) Greek “derma” = skin, “ptero” = wing |
Dermaptera |
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(Preying mantid) Greek=Mantis, prophet or soothsayer) |
Mantodea |
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(bees, wasps, ants)Greek “hymen”=membrane, “ptero”=wing or Hymen, the Greek god of marriage because the forewing & hindwings are joined together with small hooks called hamuli |
Hymenoptera |
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- Greek “koleos”= sheath, “ptero”= wing |
Coleoptera |
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– Greek “lepido”= scale, “ptero”= wingE.g. (butterflies, moths) |
Lepidoptera |
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– Latin “di”= two, “ptero”= wingE.g. flies and mosquitoes |
Diptera |
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- Greek “hemisys” = half, “ptero” = wingE.g. bugs, hoppers, aphids, scales,cicadas |
Hemiptera |
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- Greek “orthos” = straight, “pteros” = wingE.g. (grasshoppers, crickets) |
Orthoptera |
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(roaches) Latin “blatta” = cockroach |
Blattodea |
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Greek -"Iso"=equal,"ptera"=wingE.g. termite |
Isoptera |
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– Greek Thysanos,fringe; ptera, wing |
Thysanoptera |
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is characterized by having:Bilaterally symmetrical and segmented body Paired jointed appendagesChitinous exoskeleton which is periodically shed and renewedOpen circulatory systemHemocoel (blood cavity) instead of a coelomVentral nerve cord with segmental gangliaDorsal brai |
Phylum Arthropoda (arthros = joint; poda = foot) |
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Five Common Classes of Phylum |
Arthropoda Class Class Crustacea Class Diplopoda Class Insecta Class Chilopoda |
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possess 2 body regions (cephalothorax and abdomen)chelicera for feedingpedipalps as sensory no antennae |
Arachnida |
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Has a long cylindrical body segmentHas 2 pairs of legs on each segment (4 legs)Segment is called somites |
Class Diplopoda |
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has a depressed segmented body with 1 pair of legs per somiteAbout 30-35 pair of legs |
Class Chilopoda |
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Class chilopoda Has antennae and poison jaw called |
toxicognath |
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generally characterized by having 3 distinct body regions (head, thorax and abdomen)3 pairs of thoracic legsThe head compose the pair of antennae and compound eye or ocelli.usually with one or two pairs of wings, and a pair of antennae. Feeding apparatus consists of a pair of mandibles, a pair of maxillae, a hypopharynx and a labium. |
Class Insecta |
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Why insect are beneficial? |
Decomposers/recyclers Pollinators Pest controller Food sources for another animal Provide products for human Help to maintain balanced level of insects populations through parasitism and predation Attacking weeds and reducing the plant’s ability to spread and to withstand diseases Pollination of flowering plants, including honey, beeswax, silk, shellac, dyes and drugs |
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Why insect are detrimental? |
Transmitting diseases Pests of agriculture and forestry Pests of stored grainspest of forest products and wooden structures vectors of plant and animal diseases Household pests Others |
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Beneficial Insects |
Odonata Demaptera Mantode Hermiptera Diptera Hymenoptera Coleoptera |
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HARMFUL INSECTS |
Isoptera Blattodea Orthoptera Diptera |
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- study of insects. |
Entomology |
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Has a long cylindrical body segmentHas 2 pairs of legs on each segment (4 legs)Segment is called |
somites |
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– this is the behavior of producing sounds by insects. |
Acoustic behavior |
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Methods of sound production by insects: |
Stridulation Vibration of membranes and called tymbals in cicadas. Striking some parts of the body against a substrate. Forcibly ejecting air or liquid from body opening. |
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Size of segment decrease from base to apex |
Setaceous |
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Segments are cyclindrical and thickneds of segments remains same throughout |
Filliform |
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Segments are globular or spherical with prominent constriction |
Monilliform |
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Segment have short triangular projections one side |
Serrate |
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Long slender process in segment on one side |
Pectinate |
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Long slender process in segments on both sides |
Bipectinate |
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Antenna enlarges gradually towards tip |
Clavate |
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Terminal segments become enlarged suddenly |
Capitate |
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Antennal tip is expanded lateral on one side to form flat plate |
Lamellate |
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Terminal segment is enlarged with conspicuous dorsal blister |
Aristate |
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Terminal segment bear style like process |
Stylate |
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Scape is long. Remaining segment are small and arranged at angle to first resembling an elbow |
Geniculate |
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Third and subsequent segment with size processes giving a fan like arrangements |
Flabellate |
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Segments with long whorls of hair |
Plumose |
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Antenna is less feathery with few hairs at junction of flagellomeres |
Pilose |
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Possess 2 body regions, the cephalothorax covered by a carapace, 2 pairs of antennaewith biramous (branched) |
Class crustacea |